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Prairie Moves: Class.com, DocLanding, Pongr and more
What is Prairie Moves? – Published Tuesdays and Thursdays, Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development, and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post,…
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Handmark founder Grasis gives view from ‘the bleeding edge of technology’
Handmark founder and chairman, Augie Grasis knows a thing or two about staying on the bleeding edge of technology. Back when the Android Marketplace and Apple’s app store didn’t exist, Grasis was making a living on $29.99 apps like Tela Atlas and app suites such as PocketExpress. Nowadays, I would think long and hard before…
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Startup Weekend KC’s Call Me Meeting finalist in TwilioCon contest
Following closely on the heels of West Coast wins by two other startups with Midwest ties, Call Me Meeting is looking to author another Silicon Prairie success story this week at the Twilio Conference in San Francisco. Call Me Meeting, which was founded in April at Startup Weekend Kansas City and took …
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Seed accelerator BetaBlox emerges in KC, set to announce first class soon
BetaBlox, a Kansas City-based business entity that has consulted startups since 2008, will soon announce the first three of 10 startups that will make up the inaugural class of its seed accelerator. Not modeled after any particular existing accelerator, BetaBlox has raised an undisclosed six-figure cash deal with local private investors, wrangled up a list…
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PrairieCast with Brian Hemesath of Catchwind & VolunteerLocal (Video)
Episode 56: The one where everybody got funded This week our guest on PrairieCast was Brian Hemesath the Des Moines-based serial entrepreneur who has founded five companies, including Catchwind, VolunteerLocal and Notifyworks. Hemesath previewed his BIZ Luncheon Series presentation on lessons learned while bootstrapping his startups. Stay tuned here at Silicon Prairie News to see…